usableDesktop

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Richmond,

Do the working screenRects do what you want?

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On 4/2/2013 09:32, Richmond wrote:
> I am beginning to hate
>
> get the screenRect
>
> because, while it lets us know how large somebody's screen resolution is,
> it does NOT tell us what "GUI furniture" they have lying around such as
> taskbars, menubars, docks and so on.
>
> Imagine, if you will, the 2 following scenarios:
>
> 1. Windows 7 with a 'small icons' taskbar situated at the TOP of the
> desktop, and an ObjectDock
>      set at 64 pixels positioned at the bottom of the screen.
>
> 2. Elementary OS  [ http://elementaryos.org/journal/when-its-ready ]
> (which, by-ther-way, is, at least
>      at the moment, rubbish) with NO menubar, NO taskbar, and everything
> accessed via
>      a 64 pixel avant window navigator dock positioned at the bottom of
> the screen.
>
> systemVersion is going to tell me the OS, and nothing else.
>
> screenRect is going to include all that GUI furniture (menubars,
> taskbars, docks) within the pair
>                     of numbers it will give me.
>
> Now, how about having some sort of more useful pair of numbers that
> allows us to make sure that our
> standalones can avoid all those things.
>
> On Mac OS 10 (all versions) life is, frankly, dead easy (although rather
> boring) as the menubar is
> always (????) at the top of the screen and it is always 44 pixels fat.
> Mind you, the Dock at the
> bottom of the screen may be present (at differing fatnesses), playing
> peek-a-boo, or absent.
>
> My fantasy runs like this:
>
> on openStack
>     get usableDesktop
> end openStack
>
> but I have a horrible feeling that it will remain a fantasy as
> cyberspace is filled to bursting
> with lots and lots of window managers (imagine coping with Windows XP
> running KDE as a window manager) and lots and lots of docks.
>
> Richmond.
>